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Installing High Sierra 10.13.4 in VirtualBox 5.x
A short post here that might help somebody struggling to install the latest MacOS in VirtualBox on Linux. Im running VirtualBox 5.2.10 on X86_64 Linux. The process below can be replicated on Windows...
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Windows 10 May 2018 Updates – Mimikatz and Kekeo
First of all, kudos to @GentilKiwi for the Mimikatz and Kekeo. I have used Mimikatz since 2012 when I learned of its existence and first tried it. Recently I have stumbled across a following Tweet and...
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Mainframe Hacking CYOA
Mainframe Hacker a Choose Your Own Adventure game. Exclusively on the Apple Macintosh. https://t.co/dyy0pkkWoo pic.twitter.com/LStXO2c0Qz — Soldier of FORTRAN (@mainframed767) April 10, 2018 Had a...
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Installing Ubuntu 18.04 Server s390x in Hercules Mainframe simulator
Honestly I had very little interest in the IBM Z mainframe computers (zEC12 and up) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_zEC12_(microprocessor)) but recently Mainframes caught my interest (Thanks to...
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Installing High Sierra 10.13.5 in VirtualBox 5.2.12 on Linux x86_64
A little update (since I have not found a reliable way how to upgrade the existing High Sierra pre 10.13.5 in VirtualBox) is to follow the exact same steps as mentioned here...
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Creating a fake exploit for the latest High Sierra 10.13.5
Another exercise that you might find useful. Art of deception. Creating fakes. Fake exploits that exploit those who execute it. And we learn how to fork() :) Our target will be MacOS 10.13.5, we will...
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Installing High Sierra 10.13.6 in VirtualBox 5.2.12 on Linux x86_64
Since the MacOS system updates (minor version upgrade) do not work in Virtual Box (maybe somebody got it going, it does not work for me) I have decided to get my own Mac Mini and produce a usable MacOS...
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GhostPack quick review
Today @harmj0y from SpectreOps released to the public his and the other team-members tools called the GhostPack http://github.com/GhostPack/ I have been following their work for a while and in my...
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Some interesting moments from the “Who am I – Kein System ist sicher ” movie
Another one from the collection of the WTF moments … maybe this one is slightly better then the others. A great German movie from the 2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/ That I have just...
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Installing Mojave 10.14 Beta in VirtualBox 5.2.16 on Linux x86_64
Updated 04.08.2018 – Fixed the missing xz command in the script Apple has released a public beta for their latest OS codename Mojave – macOS 10.14. If you posses a relatively new Mac then you can...
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Bypassing latest Avast AV on Windows 10 x86_64
Short post here, Having read a really nice article about avoiding modern AVs (again and again) by @ParanoidNinja here...
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Understanding how DLL Hijacking works
It is vital to understand how these vulnerabilities in fact work (DLL Hijacking from valid Windows PE32 executables) So we will prepare a real world scenario and will use an outdated piece of software...
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Running AIX 1.3 inside Virtual Box 5.2.16
IBM AIX has been around many years , actually its 32 years now. The latest version is AIX 7.2 and runs only on IBM ppc64 architecture. However around the end of the 1980s a special port of AIX came...
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Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) on qemu-system-sparc in Linux x86_64 (Mint 19)
Next chapter in our Computer Archeology articles. This time it will be about emulating the legendary Sun Solaris 2.6 that dates back to July 1997 and which included Kerberos 5, PAM, TrueType fonts,...
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Running macOS Mojave 10.14 on VirtualBox 5.2.18 on Linux x86_64
Short entry here, since it was covered in the early article how to setup the Mojave-Beta in VirtualBox and Apple released the stable Mojave yesterday. Maybe somebody will find it useful. We will...
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NetBSD 8 on Alpha ES40 simulator
ES40 is the only open source emulator for the HP (DEC, Compaq) AlphaServer ES40. The current version is capable of running OpenVMS with some limitations. It emulates the Alpha AXP EV68CB processor and...
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Hacker from the Shire
A while ago I have seen a nice parody short comic strip from Middle-Earth, when Gandalf visited Biblo Baggins few years later after his adventures in the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo has of course brought...
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Gentoo on Alpha – Flying Circus 2
Today is the All Soul’s Day and people usually spend some time remembering the dead. I will take the opportunity and remember the dead computer architecture Alpha (made by Digital which was the top...
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Running AIX 7.2 TL3SP1 on x86_64 via qemu-system-ppc64
Who would not wish to run the best operating system on earth on his pity Intel Laptop ? I will describe here what I have done with the help of others and share some of my findings and recommendations...
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Reverse shell on AIX 7.2
The current msfvenom (metasploit) payloads for AIX are aged and do not work on AIX systems anymore. Here is an example of what is available right now # ./msfvenom -l payload | grep aix...
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